Service Experts Heating and Air Conditioning Auctioned Off an APCO for a Good Cause

Published on June 10, 2016

When the DFW area Service Experts Heating and Air Conditioning locations (Calverley Service Experts, Service Experts Heating and Air Conditioning Plano/DFW, and Levy and Son) were getting ready to support the Walk MS events in Addison and Fort Worth, they wanted to offer a product to the event attendees.

“Service Experts felt an APCO Air Purifier was the ideal product to auction off since this spring Service Experts has been encouraging saving the air, and it helps eliminate germs and bacteria from indoor air that can contribute to allergies and respiratory ailments,” said Rob Haines, Marketing Manager for Service Experts.

Kim Speck was the winner of the Fresh-Aire UV APCO Air Purifier when she bid the highest at the Dallas Walk MS event. Kim first learned about the APCO many months before when she saw an article discussing the significance of indoor air quality.

“I wasn’t too interested at the time because I didn’t comprehend its compatibility with practically any HVAC system, and assumed it was another one of those “luxuries” that was way out of my budget. When it came up at the Walk MS event, they were talking about the significance of good indoor air quality for MS sufferers and I instantly thought of my father.”

Kim’s father was 91 years old and had been living with COPD for over 20 years. For the past four years he had been on oxygen constantly, 24/7/365.

“The allergens in his air aggravated him even though I would install the more costly 3M Filtrate brand of air filters. They just didn’t help. He frequently caught pneumonia but he had only left his home over the past four years for doctor appointments.”

The pneumonia meant Kim’s father spent no less than two months in the hospital and rehabilitation center. Just prior to the Walk MS event in North Dallas, Kim’s father had spent almost a month in the hospital and two days at the rehab facility rebounding from two strings of pneumonia. After seeing her father go through so much, Kim said she was ready to “roll the dice” and bid on the APCO, which had two great benefits: her dad would finally come home to “clean” air and all the money went to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Kim was over the moon when she found out she had bid the highest and planned on having the APCO installed in her father’s house before he was sent home from the rehab clinic. Unfortunately, only three days after the MS Walk, Kim’s father returned home to hospice care and passed away peacefully on April 16th. The APCO arrived the week after he passed.

Kim had the APCO installed in her own home since her husband has problems with allergies. A short time after it was put in, she was cooking onions and realized she couldn’t smell any onion smells once she the meal was over. She’s excited to see the long-term effects of her APCO air purifier.

Everyone here at Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning sends their thoughts and prayers to Kim and her family.

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